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23.

Wednesday, August 12.

We boarded the "Clearwater" about nine o'clock in the morning to take a trip up to the head of the lake. Although but three miles it is a long and tedious journey, the morning boat making stops at almost every dock to unload the day's provisions. Two or three stops are made on one side of the lake, then the boat crosses, goes backwards a short distance, and makes two or three stops on the other side. It took us about two hours to reach Rocky Point at the very head. We walked back to the state road and took the trail leading due east to Black Bear Mountain.

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[[underlined]] Summit of Black Bear [[/underlined]]

The trail is fairly level for a distance of about three miles as it winds around a mountain between Black Bear and the lake. Nothing unusual from a botanical viewpoint was found in these woods.

At length we arrived at the rocky sides of the mountain itself. A sudden break in the trees shows you these rocks rising almost perpendicularly straight before you. It is great fun to climb up these

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[[underlined]] West from Black Bear [[/underlined]]

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